Network World·3 min read·hard
Linux XFS has a decade-old race condition allowing full root access
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Shweta Sharma
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A decade-old race condition vulnerability in the Linux XFS filesystem, dubbed RefluXFS, allows unprivileged users to gain full root access. The flaw affects systems using the reflink feature and has been assigned a high severity score of 7.8.
Linux systems using the XFS filesystem suffer from a race condition that could enable an unprivileged local user to gain full root access.
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